convoluted, labyrinthine, arcane, bureaucratic, complicated, confusing, bewildering, labyrinthian, muddled, intricacies, bureaucracy, complexities, opaque, crazy quilt, unwieldy, antiquated, machinations, cumbersome, intricate, tortuous, convolutions, inscrutable, obtuse, arcana, archaic, minutia, maze, abstruse, vagaries, kafkaesque, hodgepodge, chaotic, murky, laborious, indecipherable, esoteric, morass, jumbled, maddening, impenetrably, labyrinth, patchwork, legalese, complex, mishmash, multilayered, messy, screwy, pettifogging, recondite, myriad, rube goldberg, technicalities, venal, sclerotic, haphazard, dysfunctional, bureacracy, legalistic, tedious, picayune, inflexible, untangle, dizzying, undecipherable, hidebound, red tape, slapdash, onerous, tawdriest, overdetermined, mystifying, antediluvian, illogic, intrigues, incomprehensibility, stultified, slipshod, hairsplitting, unversed, impenetrability, cabalistic, obscure, capriciousness, fragmented, overhauling, anachronistic, flawed, inefficient, thicket, alphabet soup, torturous, hopelessly, jobbery, baffling, simplified, nuances, nebulous, wonky, decipher, nettlesome, kerfuffles, buddhist, greek, roman, celtic, elizabethan, hindu, jewish, pagan, british, oriental, anglo, egyptian, mystics, norman, orthodox, persian, platonic, sceptics, colonial, eastern, achaemenid, carolingian, sasanian, sassanian, mughal, ottoman, timurid, hellenistic, safavid, sassanid, eoman, fatimid, medieval, moghul, mughul, achaemenian, boman, kievan, mamluk

., armenian apostolic orthodox church, armenian church, belisarius, bezant, bezzant, byzant, byzantine architecture, byzantine church, cimabue, constantinople, eastern church, eastern orthodox, eastern orthodox church, giotto, giotto di bondone, giovanni cimabue, greek fire, istanbul, justinian, justinian i, justinian the great, melchite, melkite, onion dome, orthodox catholic church, orthodox church, ottoman empire, patrician, roman empire, solidus, stamboul, stambul, turkish empire

architectural style, style of architecture, type of architecture

artful, involved, knotty, tangled